Abstract
Abstract This Special Publication contains contributions for two meetings held to explore the links between geoscience and engineering in rivers and reservoirs (surface and subsurface). The first meeting was held in Brazil and, as a result, the volume contains many contributions from Brazil. The second was held in Edinburgh, and produced contributions from modern rivers in the USA, China, India and Scotland. The geological record from Carboniferous to Recent is represented. A range of outcrop techniques are presented along with statistical techniques used to identify patterns in the time series and spatial sense. The book is intended to cover the cross-disciplinary interest in rivers and their sediments, and will interest geologists, geomorphologists, civil, geotechnical and petroleum engineers, and government agencies. Some of the papers collected here demonstrate longer term impacts of human activity on rivers and how these might change the future geological record and, more importantly in the short term, impact on the UN Global Sustainability Goals.
Highlights
This Special Publication brings together a number of dynamic changes to river systems as part of natural papers from two workshops held under the theme processes but in particular under changing climatic ‘Rain, Rivers, Reservoirs’ which considered the conditions
Engineers and geologists currently work at different scales and different time steps, and this introduction will highlight these aspects and help to inform future hydrologists, hydrogeologists, geologists and civil engineers in addressing the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations to challenge traditional thinking
The economic importance of fluvial sedimentology was included in the early Volume 18 (Brenchley & Williams 1985) and followed up with a focus on the downstream deltaic portion of the system in Volume 41 (Whateley & Pickering 1989), driven by the discovery of major oil reserves in the Brent Group reservoirs of the North Sea celebrated in Volume 61 (Morton et al 1992)
Summary
HARTLEY3, SILA PLA-PUEYO4,5, DANIEL BARRETO6, CHRIS HACKNEY7 & STEPHANIE J. KAPE8 1Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS), Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK 2School of Geographical and Earth Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK 3Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK 4Department of Didactics of Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Science Education, University of Grenada, Paseo de la Cartuja s/n 18071, Granada, Spain 5Sedimentary Reservoirs Workgroup, Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva s/n 18071, Granada, Spain 6School of Engineering and Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, UK 7Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK 8Salar Geoscience Ltd, The Stables, Moneys Farm, Bottle Lane, Mattingley, Hook, Hampshire RG27 8LJ, UK
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